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angrychair

(8,678 posts)
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:52 AM Feb 2016

Ask the questions

Hillary Clinton, in her own words, said their family was "dead broke" when the left the WH in 2001. She has even used this story to identify with poor and middle-class families.
So they went from "dead broke" in 2001 to swimming pools and movie stars by 2015, pulling down over $250 million dollars in 14 years:
Here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2015/10/13/how-the-clintons-made-more-than-230-million-after-leaving-the-white-house/#6ea9eb52791e

And here: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us/politics/clintons-reportedly-earned-30-million-in-the-last-16-months.html?referer=&_r=0

FYI, Not me, not anyone I have ever known, made a quarter of a billion dollars in 14 years.

Fyi, they were never broke.

They claim to care about people like you and me. Have our interest in mind. That is hard to believe when They spend their personal time, out of the public eye, with people like the Bushs, Trumps and Henry Kissinger.
You are judged by the company you keep.

How does Hillary Clinton win the WH when no Democratic Party presidential candidate has ever won the presidency negative on these key numbers of likeability and trustworthiness?

These are key questions and issues that must be addressed if she is going to be successful.

You are welcome to rant about Sanders or give me snark or attempt to hurt my fe-fes but these questions and issues will still be there.




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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. By her definition, anyone who takes out a mortgage that's worth more than their liquid assets
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:58 AM
Feb 2016

is 'dead broke'. You got debts more than you have cash? You're 'dead broke'.

Ignore the fact that you KNOW you've got paychecks going to be rolling in to pay for the payments.

Hill, 'dead broke' is when you've had to sell all your assets to keep eating, and you've run out of things to sell that can make you money. When you're going to actually BE dead within a few days unless you can scrape together something. It's NOT when you know you can pick up the phone and arrange to talk somewhere for 5 min and rake in a couple hundred grand, knowing it's the 'going rate' for your speeches.

Just like Rmoney. She has no clue what regular people have to do to survive any more, she's been so incredibly privileged for so long.

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
2. People are seriously turned off by her. She cannot win in the GE. The people on the right hate her,
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 08:00 AM
Feb 2016

and half the people on the left are at best apathetic because they know she is a single minded power monger.

angrychair

(8,678 posts)
5. So, none of that concerns you?
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 10:30 AM
Feb 2016

The sudden wealth? The hamhanded way she dealt with it to poor working families?
More importantly, the company she keeps?
These are not causal acquaintances. These are people that stand against everything we as Democrats hold dear.
I find it fascinating that Sanders move from an independent to Democrat means he is still not a 'real' Democrat but these type of people are worthy friends and people they take advice from?

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